Ben Flajnik goes on his hometown dates next week on The Bachelor. Kacie Boguskie, Nicki Sterling, Lindzi Cox and black widow Courtney Robertson have won the chance to bring a smiling Ben back to their hometowns. For hometown dates!

The show uses that word almost as much as the inaccurate "Ben and I's relationship." Why? We have no idea, but that's what they're called, all the time, and Flajnik is going to be put through the ringer by the ladies' respective parents.